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Harvard began putting its card catalogue on a computer database in 1976, and created the Distributable Union Catalogue (DUC), a set of microfiches covering all books bought since the mid-70s. About 130 stations--with fiches and readers--have been installed around the system, but Feng says that while Harvard could completely computerize the system and have researchers call up catalogue information on a computer screen, officials feel the convenience doesn't justify the expense...
...mid-70s, the University was concerned that the cost of in-house custodial work was much higher than the cost of outside contractors. Powers said, adding that Harvard determined that it was paying custodial workers several dollars more per hour than most other firms...
...many banks have refinanced old debts (sometimes at exorbitant new rates), new lending has disappeared almost entirely while foreign aid from the U.S. and Europe has dropped sharply. The motives are clear for such backing off; because most nations cannot repay loans written before the inflationary explosion of the mid-70s, bodies like the IMF have lost confidence in older development strategies and retreated to a policy of withdrawal...
...contest had all the elements of a game from the early-and mid-70s, the last time Harvard hockey teams held away in the ECAC. With the same incredible scoring punch that characterized those teams, the Crimson took on a rival powerhouse squad and heat it going away Still, said UNH Coach Charlie Holt. "It's not like the Harvard teams I saw when they had [Joe] Cavanagh and that crew [including the 1971 ECAC champs]. You'd never want a penalty against that team Before the game I'd tell my players. 'Don't take a penalty...
...that HIID would never consider a project in a country with a record of "extreme human rights violations." He cites the Central African Republic under Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa as an example of such an extreme case. Crowned in a garrish ceremony attended by many world leaders in the mid-70s, Bokassa was forced to abdicate his throne because of widespread accusations that he had personally murdered, and later eaten, dozens of schoolchildren...